Giants Move Tim Alderson in Freddy Sanchez Trade

Now that I have bit of time to think on this trade I still hate it. I feel Sabean is betting with a chunk of the rent money for the 2011 and on seasons. It also magnifies the stakes of the Garko trade all out of proportion. But the thought that occurrs to me - Is this the move the makes or breaks Sabean’s contract extension? If Sanchez is merrily “meh” it is a loss of a trade. If Sanchez is not even able to be a 2.5-3 WAR player over his current contract how does this not go down has another Hillenbrand type trade? And as such against what The Bow Tie was talking up as his Giants’ way?

I like the theory that KLaw (and tedfordfan) have put forward, but I'm not sure the Giants will actually give Renteria more time off unless they are really forced to. I don't know, theoretically it sounds OK but I'm not sure I like the idea (defensively) of Uribe getting innings at SS. It's not a terrible idea, though. At this point, I just hope Sanchez is healthy.

One more poteneial advantage to the trade. Renteria has a bum elbow. Now Uribe will be freed up to give hime more time off. Rest might help him, and less Renteria will help us.

Well..I DO tend to obey the KLAW. Blarg.

Keith Law says its not so bad a deal, as Alderson is not quite the prospect he used to be. He calls it a not unreasonable trade... http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryI...

Not just too high a price. A preposterous price. Ryan Garko would have the most value if we used him as a platoon partner for Ishikawa. Against RH pitching, he and Ishi are pretty well even, and Ishi's a better defensive first baseman. But the great imponderable is Jesus Guzman. Given his success in AAA, and given his success in Winter league, there's every reason to suppose that he'd give us everything Garko gives us. And more, frankly, because Bruce Bochy will certainly play Garko every day, at least for awhile, and probably would be more inclined to platoon Guzman. So we gave up Scott Barnes, for what? Because Guzman didn't hit much in 20 PA. Now we get Freddy Sanchez. And granted, second base has been a black hole. But again, didn't we have a much cheaper, and quite possibly better minor league alternative? I understand the reluctance to turn over second base to Brock Bond, but we're talking about a .450 OBP in a good pitcher's park in AA. Wouldn't it make much more sense to see what he can do before trading someone with the potential upside of Tim Alderson? I'm sure Sabean feels pressure to make the deal because we're in a pennant race and he's fighting to keep his job. And on the surface, the deal makes sense; we got a quality major league second baseman, and all we gave up was some minor league pitching depth. But the reality is, we're not really in a pennant race, not really. We're one of eight teams fighting for the wild card, and we still have the worst offense of those teams. Freddy Sanchez has value, but most of it tied up in his batting average. We never really gave Kevin Frandsen a chance to establish himself. Maybe he wouldn't have; we never let him compete for the job. We never really let Downs compete. Probably he wouldn't have made it; we gave him a week. We never gave Bond a chance at all. Maybe he's nothing special defensively; he's certainly a poor baserunner. Still, we never let him compete for the job, despite some evidence that he would be terrific. In short, we gave up way too much, for not nearly enough. One hates to invoke the name of A. J. Pierzynski, but this could potentially turn out to be a trade nearly as bad as that one was.

You called it--too high a price. I could live with Garko even though he came at a high price, too. Garko is younger and under our control longer and gives us what we need, a guy with some pop. We should have gotten more for Alderson--Sanchez isn't enough.